Twain Harte, CA – February 7, 2012 –
Fresh off the runaway success of
Dungeon Defenders (which recently surpassed 1 million
units sold across all platforms), digital experts Reverb Publishing
today announced a partnership with the veteran development team at
Coffee Stain Studios to publish the PC, Xbox LIVE and PlayStation
Network version of
Sanctum 2, the sequel to its incredibly popular PC title,
Sanctum. Since launching on Steam in April 2011, the
tower-defense/first-person-shooter genre bending
Sanctum has sold over 300,000 units.

“We’re always searching for great games from
passionate developers, particularly studios that have innovative
ideas that get us excited to play them,” said Ted Lange,
executive producer, Reverb Publishing. “Sanctum has been a
huge success on Steam for Coffee Stain Studios, and bringing the
next version to console players as well as the PC market is a great
next step to share this unique experience. We all have logged quite
a few hours with Sanctum and can definitively say that what Coffee
Stain has in store for Sanctum 2 will blow the minds of Sanctum
fans and new gamers alike.”

Sanctum is a fresh take on the tower defense genre and
places the player right into the frenetic fray with tight
first-person shooter gameplay mechanics. Gamers take the role of
Skye, an elite soldier sent out to protect her home town, Elysion
One, from hordes of mysterious alien creatures. To successfully
defend your land, you must construct and upgrade a labyrinth of
defensive structures and towers. When the havoc starts and the wave
of baddies is unleashed, you jump right into the action with your
own fully-upgradeable weapons and play a key role in the defense.
Sanctum has taken the best features from FPSs and tower
defense games to create something totally unique, and
Sanctum 2 will only build on and improve that experience.

“With their combined public relations, marketing, sales
and business development experience, Reverb Publishing has more
than enough chops for us to be honored that they are publishing
Sanctum 2,” said Anton Westbergh, producer and CEO for Coffee
Stain Studios. “Reverb’s unique publishing model
allowing us as the developer to fully retain our IP and keep the
lion’s share of the revenue from the game made it a
no-brainer. Their success with Dungeon Defenders proves they know
how to take a digital title to market and make it a winner, and we
can’t wait to see what they can do with Sanctum 2.”

Reverb Publishing’s unique business model is form fitted
for each of its developers, ensuring that the developer receives
the majority of the game’s revenue and maintains ownership of
their titles’ IP while Reverb handles production support,
first party management, marketing, public relations and
distribution.

Sanctum 2 joins Reverb’s growing roster of titles, which
includes the recently released
Dungeon Defenders as well as the upcoming
Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad,
JAM Live Music Arcade,
Black Knight Sword and much more. For more information on
Reverb Publishing and its line-up of titles, please visit us at
www.reverbpublishing.com,
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About Reverb Publishing:

Founded in 2010, Reverb Publishing offers digital publishing to
independent game developers on PlayStation Network, Xbox LIVE
Arcade, Wiiware, PC, iOS and Droid, by combining production and
business development support paired with the proven public
relations and marketing agency expertise from its parent company,
Reverb Communications. Reverb Publishing’s unique business
model is form fitted for studios, ensuring that they receive the
majority of the game’s revenue and maintain ownership of
their titles while Reverb handles all the non-developmental tasks
including production support, navigating QA, and preparing for
product submission.

The PR veterans at Reverb Communications have worked on
recognizable brands like
Guitar Hero,
Rock Band,
The Beatles: Rock Band,
Dance Central,
Star Trek Online, as well as stellar digital titles like
ZEN Pinball,
Battle Slots,
Army of Darkness,
BloodRayne: Betrayal,
Kung Fu LIVE and the recently released
Dungeon Defenders.

Coffee Stain Studios is a game development studio based in
Skövde, Sweden. The company was founded in 2010 and focus on
quality game productions for multiple platforms. Coffee Stain
Studios was one of the main contestants in the 'Intel Make
Something Unreal' by Epic Games in 2009 with the title Sanctum. In
the contest Sanctum placed among the top in the categories of:
"Best FPS-game mod", and the educational category.

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